private inner class

[John-Mason P. Shackelford]

In ruby is it possible to have a private innner class? Using private
method doesn't appear to work.

class A
private
class B
def hw
'hello_world'
end
end
end

A::B.new.hw # => 'hello world'



John-Mason Shackelford

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[Glenn Parker]

In ruby is it possible to have a private innner class? Using private
method doesn't appear to work.

class A
private
class B
def hw
'hello_world'
end
end
end

A::B.new.hw # => 'hello world'

p A::B.new.hw => "hello world"

 

[gabriele renzi]

Glenn Parker ha scritto:

p A::B.new.hw => "hello world"

I guess he meant this is not private.
Anyway, that would be a "yes and no". You can't do that way since
constants are public, but you can use a class variable, wich is private:
=> "yuk"

 

[Robert Klemme]

p A::B.new.hw => "hello world"

?

robert

 

[Glenn Parker]

?

Sorry, I completely misunderstood John-Mason's question. I thought he
wanted A::B.new.hw to work, but that maybe he was confused because
nothing was being printed. Now I understand that he actually wanted it
to fail!